Joe's Spring Tour Germany 2016 (Page 1 of 2)

Yeah that's quite an amount. I just wanted to order row 1 and then saw the price.
EUR 170. Nope. Ended up in row 8 between Joe and Michael.
Row 1-6 are EUR 170. From row 7 on it is EUR 90 "only."
O.K. all who want to see his fingers from near have to pay.
For me also too much. But some pay.
Michael and Anton have to be paid. That's Business.
Maybe also the horns are back again and maybe also Kirk ???
Looking forward to the shows.
Next month again row 1 in Osnabrück and then back to row 8, but...

The market will show whether this price policy will work. The main ticketseller in Germany, eventim doesn't offer the most expensive category 169,50 € in all locations.

I'll buy tickets in the medium price range, but still hope that my band
www.facebook.com/jimmysteeltown  will get the support slot for Dortmund.

love live concerts, like Joe bonamassa live............................but not for that Price. . had tickets for the spring tour this year and they were 85 € first row. even Joe bonamassa is not double good for the double price within a few months.
thomas dont go, very easy decission.

Thomas

The "VIP" thing is a Ticketmaster/Live Nation thing. They now sell "Platinum" tickets for any show, not just Joe's. And these tickets are in the first few rows and they charge an arm and a leg for them. And there is nothing "VIP" about them. You don't get anything more than an expensive seat. It's ticketmaster using their monopoly status on ticket buying. We succumbed to it for one of Joe's 3 Kings shows. Paid $345 a ticket for second row pit during presale and then came to find out that months later those seats came down in price to the standard $120 when they didn't sell at Platinum prices. Learned our lesson and won't ever buy Platinum again. Wish there were other ticket companies here in the States so we weren't at the mercy of Ticketmaster/Live Nation.

171,50€ plus 8 € fees are to be paid by ticketonline and eventim including the 8th row.
                                                     by adticket and reservix including the 10th row.
Next categories 92,50/86,90/76,00 without fees.

Presale tickets were only sold by adticket. If you bought earlier you will sit exactly minimum 2 rows more behind than if you bought later f.e. by eventim.

Well, I was disappointed too, when I looked at the ticket prices this year. I just looked at my Joe Bonamassa tickets and the development of the prices in the last years where just like this:

07/2010: 41,00 Euro (standing tickets)
10/2010: 45,70 Euro (standing tickets)
07/2011: 49,90 Euro (standing tickets) Black Country Communion
11/2011: 56,95 Euro (standing tickets)
03/2013: 68,00 Euro (3rd row)
03/2015: 89,50 Euro (15th row)

Now this time it is even more expensive and my decision is I don`t go this time. I even don´t like sitting at concerts,  all the standing Bonamassa Concerts where better with much better atmosphere in the audience I think.

For me it seems, that Joe and his management want to cash up the older audience as the prices are not longer affordable for the younger ones.

I hope there will be more reasonable ticket prices (hopefully with standing venues) in the future, then I will go again.

Please don´t get me wrong, I buy all the CD´s, blu-rays, sometimes vinyl and I love Joe live, but it´s too much I think, my income hasn`t doubled since 2010.

Have the costs of touring really increased that much?

I mean there are some other artists on the road, where the prices get more or less higher, but that much?

I understand that costs are geting higher, but 170 Euro for the first few rows is not what I expected from Joe and I don't want to support that even if I would love to watch him again.

Holger